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fau·na

(fô′nə)

n. pl. fau·nas or fau·nae (-nē′)

1. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Animals, especially the animals of a particular region or period, considered as a group.

2. A catalog of the animals of a specific region or period.

[Late Latin Fauna, sister of Faunus.]

fau′nal adj.

fau′nal·ly adv.

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fauna

(ˈfɔːnə)

n, pl -nas or -nae (-niː)

1. (Zoology) all the animal life of a given place or time, esp when distinguished from the plant life (flora)

2. (Zoology) a descriptive list of such animals

[C18: from New Latin, from Late Latin Fauna a goddess, sister of Faunus]

ˈfaunal adj

ˈfaunally adv

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fau•na

(ˈfɔ nə)

n., pl. -nas, -nae (-nē).

1. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) the animals of a given region or period considered as a whole.

2. a list of the animals of a given region or period.

[1765–75; < New Latin, after Latin Fauna, a feminine counterpart to Faunus; compare flora]

fau′nal, adj.

fau·na

(fô′nə)

The animals of a particular region or time period: tropical fauna; prehistoric fauna.

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fauna

1. the animal life of a particular time or region.
2. a study of or treatise on the animal life of a particular time or region. — faunal, adj.

fauna

All animals occupying a major geographical region.

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Noun	1.	fauna - all the animal life in a particular region or period; "the fauna of China"; "the zoology of the Pliocene epoch" zoology aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole biota, biology - all the plant and animal life of a particular region avifauna - the birds of a particular region or period animal group - a group of animals botany, flora, vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"
	2.	fauna - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement animal, animate being, beast, creature, brute organism, being - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently ritual killing, sacrifice - the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity tracking, trailing - the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind animal kingdom, Animalia, kingdom Animalia - taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals pest - any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.; "he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests"; "many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides" critter - a regional term for `creature' (especially for domestic animals) creepy-crawly - an animal that creeps or crawls (such as worms or spiders or insects) darter - a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly; "squirrels are darters" peeper - an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds homeotherm, homoiotherm, homotherm - an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperature ectotherm, poikilotherm - an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals range animal - any animal that lives and grazes in the grassy open land of western North America (especially horses, cattle, sheep) varment, varmint - any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable; e.g., coyote scavenger - any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter work animal - an animal trained for and used for heavy labor domestic animal, domesticated animal - any of various animals that have been tamed and made fit for a human environment feeder - an animal that feeds on a particular source of food; "a bark feeder"; "a mud feeder" migrator - an animal (especially birds and fish) that travels between different habitats at particular times of the year molter, moulter - an animal (especially birds and arthropods and reptiles) that periodically shed their outer layer (feathers or cuticle or skin or hair) pet - a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement stayer - a person or other animal having powers of endurance or perseverance; "the horse that won the race is a good stayer" stunt - a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth marine animal, marine creature, sea animal, sea creature - any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals female - an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa) male - an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova) adult - any mature animal young, offspring - any immature animal pureblood, purebred, thoroughbred - a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses giant - any creature of exceptional size survivor - an animal that survives in spite of adversity; "only the fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters" mutant - an animal that has undergone mutation herbivore - any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants; "horses are herbivores"; "the sauropod dinosaurs were apparently herbivores" insectivore - any organism that feeds mainly on insects acrodont - an animal having teeth consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge without sockets pleurodont - an animal having teeth fused with the inner surface of the alveolar ridge without sockets microorganism, micro-organism - any organism of microscopic size actinomycete - any bacteria (some of which are pathogenic for humans and animals) belonging to the order Actinomycetales zooplankton - animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae conceptus, fertilized egg, embryo - an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life chordate - any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column invertebrate - any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification metazoan - any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa; all animals except protozoans and sponges omnivore - an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances predatory animal, predator - any animal that lives by preying on other animals prey, quarry - animal hunted or caught for food game - animal hunted for food or sport

Translations

حَيواناتحَيَوَانات

fauna

faunadyreliv

eläimistö

fauna

állatvilág

fána, dÿraríki

fauna

動物相

동물군

faunagyvūnija

fauna, dzīvnieku valsts

fauna

สัตว์ในท้องถิ่นหนึ่งๆ

direyfaunahayvanat

hệ động vật

动物群

fauna

[ˈfɔːnə] N (faunas or faunae (pl)) → fauna f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

fauna

[ˈfɔːnə] n → faune ffaux pas [ˌfəʊˈpɑː] n → impair mfava bean [ˈfɑːvəbiːn] (US) n → fève f

fauna

n → Fauna f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

fauna

[ˈfɔːnə] n → fauna

fauna

(ˈfoːnə) noun

the animals of a district or country as a whole. She is interested in South American fauna.

fauna

→ حَيَوَانات fauna fauna Fauna πανίδα fauna eläimistö faune fauna fauna 動物相 동물군 fauna fauna fauna fauna фауна fauna สัตว์ในท้องถิ่นหนึ่งๆ hayvanat hệ động vật 动物群

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Through the climatic changes, conodont and ammonoid faunae were initially able to recover very quickly during the Early Triassic as unusually short-lived species emerged.

Ups and downs of biodiversity after mass extinction unveiled

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